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Contemporary Chinese Society Lecture Series featuring Ethan Michelson – Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China’s Divorce Courts
Speaker: Ethan Michelson, Professor of Sociology, Professor and Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University-Bloomington; Professor of Law, IU Maurer School of Law Presented via Zoom Also
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring William Alan Reinsch – China as Best Customer and Biggest Threat – Trade Policy in the Biden Era
Speaker: William Alan Reinsch, Senior Adviser and Scholl Chair in International Business, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)Moderator: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School William Reinsch holds
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Environment in Asia Series featuring Brian Lander – The Ecology of China’s Early Political Systems
Speaker: Brian Lander, Assistant Professor of History, Brown UniversityDiscussant: Ling Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of History, Boston College By encouraging us to rethink familiar historical processes through an ecological lens,
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China’s Role in the World: Is China Exporting Authoritarianism?
Speakers: Elizabeth Economy, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Associate Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin Naima Green-Riley, PhD Candidate,
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Yuen Yuen Ang – Does Corruption Really Disappear as Countries Grow Richer?
Speaker: Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Discussant: Patrick O. Okigbo, founder of Nextier and M-RCBG senior fellow This webinar is part of
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Guobin Yang – Listening to the Wuhan Lockdown
Speaker: Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Sociology, University of PennsylvaniaModerator/discussant: Nara Dillon, Senior Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
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Nirupama Rao – The Fractured Himalaya
Speaker: Nirupama Rao, Former Foreign Secretary of India and Ambassador to the United States and China Chair: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs Part of the Borders in
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Yuhang Li – Engineering Religious Bliss at the Qing Court: Jile shijie in the Beihai Park
Speaker: Yuhang Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison In 1770, with the purpose of presenting an unusual surprising gift to his mother Empress Dowager Chongqing (1692-1777) for her eightieth birthday, Emperor
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POSTPONED: Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Xingxing Wang – Chinese Policy Toward North Korea
Regrettably, this event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a future date. Speaker: Xingxing Wang, Professor& Director, Research Center for Strategy of Korean Peninsula, School of International Relations and
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Victoria Chen – Coastal Formosan, Nuclear Austronesian, and beyond: How do Formosan languages Inform Theories of Austronesian Expansion?
Presented via ZoomThe Indigenous languages of Taiwan feature two patterns of morphological discrepancy. First, only some possess a symmetrical morphological paradigm associated with a phenomenon known as ‘noun-verb homophony'. Second, only a handful of the languages allow the Proto-Austronesian stative affix ma- to be used in a transitive clause. This talk addresses how these two foci of variation inform our understanding of the Austronesian diaspora and further explains how new comparative data on these phenomena offers a simpler answer to two ongoing debates in the field.
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Cancan Liao – The Interpretations of “Heaven”: Encounter, Conflict and Accommodation between Chinese Literati and European Jesuits in late Ming China
Presented via ZoomSpeakers Late Ming and Early Qing was a period during which China underwent a transformation both on intellectual thoughts and society life, influenced with Western natural science (more precisely, natural
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